The Sympathizer, Viet Thanh Nguyen
The Sympathizer, Viet Thanh Nguyen
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The Sympathizer

Author: Viet Thanh Nguyen

Series: Sympathizer, The

Narrator: Francois Chau

Unabridged: 14 hr 28 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Published: 03/04/2025

Synopsis

Now an HBO® Original Limited Series on Max, and winner of the 2016 Pulitzer Prize in Fiction, a startling debut novel featuring one of the most remarkable narrators of recent years: a conflicted subversive and idealist working as a double agent in the aftermath of the Vietnam War.

The winner of the Pulitzer Prize in Fiction, as well as seven other awards, and now an HBO® Original Limited Series on Max, The Sympathizer has sold over one million copies worldwide and is one of the most acclaimed books of the 21st century. With the pace and suspense of a thriller and prose that has been compared to Graham Greene and Vladimir Nabokov, The Sympathizer is a sweeping epic of love and betrayal. The narrator, a communist double agent, is a “man of two minds,” a half-French, half-Vietnamese army captain who comes to America after the fall of Saigon, and while building a new life with other Vietnamese refugees in Los Angeles is secretly reporting back to his communist superiors in Vietnam. The Sympathizer is a blistering exploration of identity and America, a gripping spy novel, and a powerful story of love and friendship.

About Viet Thanh Nguyen

Viet Thanh Nguyen was born in Vietnam and raised in America. He is the author of The Committed, which continues the story of The Sympathizer, and the story collection The Refugees. He is also the author of the memoir A Man of Two Faces and the nonfiction book Nothing Ever Dies. He is the Aerol Arnold professor of English and American studies and ethnicity at the University of Southern California and a recipient of fellowships from the Guggenheim and MacArthur foundations. He lives in Los Angeles.

Reviews

Goodreads review by Duy on March 16, 2015

Being an English major from UCBerkeley and an Artistic Director of Asian American Theater Company for 3 years, I've run across a lot of Asian American works. Though my heart is always with these stories, they've often lacked style. Viet Nguyen has style. He's really funny, in a smart unpredictable w......more

Goodreads review by Nae on September 15, 2024

The Sympathizer - (Audiobook Version) was a unique and challenging experience. Many books and films have explored the Vietnam War, but this one stands out due to its narrator, a double agent, who is both building a life among refugees in Los Angeles and secretly reporting back to his communist s......more

Goodreads review by Roxane on March 28, 2017

So clever and witty but also gripping.......more

Goodreads review by Angela M on February 10, 2017

This is without a doubt an important story to tell. " ....thousands of refugees wailed as if attending a funeral, the burial of their nation, dead too soon, as so many were, at a tender twenty- one years of age." The writing is as good as I found in The Refugees but I wasn't immediately drawn in and......more

Goodreads review by Michael on February 01, 2021

I can definitely see why this first book by Viet Thanh Nguyen won the Pulitzer for 2016. A real page turner, it is a dark comedy about the Vietnam War and especially its aftermath seen from the north in a brilliant narrative style. The theme of schizophrenia is abundant and incredibly apt given the......more

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